Being a thug is cool...
Posted on 08/10/2012 6:48:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, Americans under the age of 30 favor Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by almost a two-to-one margin. This is a startling statistic. What explains the lopsided support for Obama among younger Americans?
I think the two main reasons are ideological and personal.
It’s no revelation to say that young people tend to be more liberal about issues like the redistribution of wealth. You may have heard the old adage, “Anyone who is not a socialist when he is 20, has no heart; anyone who is still a socialist when he is 30, has no mind.” I lived that adage. I was a young socialist 40 years ago who voted for the likable-but-too-conservative George McGovern. Then, after emerging from the collegiate cocoon, weaning myself from financial dependency on others, and seeing the real-world devastation wrought by socialism, I embraced capitalism.
The fact of the matter is that our intellect develops more slowly than our feelings. In my case, my youthful concern for the poor never left me. I simply recognized that free markets, however imperfect, are far more effective at reducing poverty than government programs and socialist dystopias. Likewise, today’s youth generally have good intentions; they just don’t always perceive the optimal means to attain their goals. When you combine that intellectual immaturity with the barrage of leftist indoctrination that many colleges inflict on them, it is no wonder that the under-30 segment of our population favors Obama.
As significant as the ideological factor is for explaining the millennials’ support for Obama, the president’s personal attractiveness to them looms equally large. Indeed, the young are not unique in voting in response to a presidential candidate’s likability. We have known at least since the Kennedy-Nixon race
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I think Obama’s “coolness” is wearing very thin.
He’s getting older.
His voters have no reason to vote for him this time.
The ONLY reason he’s in contention is that we’re outsourcing everything.
Bring back US jobs.
It’s the madness of the crowd. They are told they should like the Democrat, and especially so if he’s black (Imagine the support if he/she/it were a trans-gender-gay-lesbian sex changed to a man, bleached white, and died yellow candidate) . So, not wanting to be chastised by their peers they go along to get along. Only when some of them actually grow up and get a job (pay real taxes) does the awakening occur.
Only when they attempt to earn their own way or profit from their own skills do they discover that they have given away their liberty and they have a bleak future in a system where the Socialist informs them:
"All your product are belong to us."
FNG morons.
FNG morons.
Being a thug is cool...
The author gives “young people” far more credit for independent thought than they deserve. They’re simply doing what they’re told. And they will this time around as well.
Then I guess I have no heart. I was as much a staunchly conservative free-market capitalist when I was 20 as I am now at age 38.
This is not surprising considering they have been taught in school that the US Constitution is a very uncool, out-of-touch document written by slave-owning, straight, wealthy, white dudes.
Socialist Security is even worse, high tax rates on income from those with the least in assets (those in their 20’s and 30’s) to write checks to those with the most in assets (those in their 60’s and above).
Let’s get it right, shall we? “If one is twenty and not a liberal one has no heart. If one is forty and not a conservative one has no brain’’.— Winston Churchill.
“Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.” F.E. Smith
There’s no reason that they need to pay any price for their “cool” vote. All they have to do is go on the dole or get diagnosed as “disabled”.
LOL!
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